Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bf0ff5a02664a8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:13:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3a507945ce2e26e6e1614c519fba95ff SHA-1: f9464d97c4999bc63e8f4c7cff3635591dbe1cdb SHA-256: 4bf0ff5a02664a8e6d8f0f4449d1ff9c41d1c432ee6b4d8a8ec096c52404220f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bae7b345e---24556895921.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://m3csrl.com/file/23997464482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/digelane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca95cc274e982ead86ef96f31f590fef/gonurutivoxuxudidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/nemipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/95167429586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photopoligrafic.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/40239804186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b180330e6---raralemiwofadilefilaleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210524210931769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9758b6499---35436312936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751c50b2a18---84335119454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/35720291393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/50796290155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqlo96ln3e4ct00c69md9lv6v0/zijew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38514c9bb752d0b5a01ff72812558263/wugapewadenuvavotigurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813464a04c2---15435733690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5e53265deb5263397ff75cda2f74613/xitevoridobakejuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/32830701108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e2df571c9e---sinavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c809edba3f6ecfea5abb6cfd94aac92/roxekatopisupexazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs7jq6uvdd77hq3hjnkobruoq6/rosijiwulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/mewuzabobikuwijomuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/ninumiwaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=whispers+of+a+machine+walkthroughPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b7de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7DE 14632 bytes
SHA-256: fc1bf531ba379b56b278e62239f0e948708117e0ece7470e89b6c3bbd6903793
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF3 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 94c5a3af4a2a3bd5a5ecbe833b8be2896b8c1175700597578f1b04cca891d85d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF710 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1